NCAA Sanctions Former OU Coach

Posted: Thu 2:52 PM, May 25, 2006&nbsp|&nbsp

Updated: Thu 5:45 PM, May 25, 2006

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana coach Kelvin Sampson is being bannedfrom calling or visiting athletes he wants to recruit for one yearfor breaking NCAA rules while he was coach at Oklahoma. It could now cost him his job at Indiana.

The contract Sampson signed with Indiana on April 20th says theschool "may take further action, up to and including termination"if the NCAA "imposes more significant penalties or sanctionsthan the University of Oklahoma's self-imposed sanctions."

It was not immediately clear if the Hoosiers would fire Sampson.

But the committee largely accepted Oklahoma's self-imposed sanctions.

The Committee on Infractions issued a public reprimand andcensure and extended OU's self-imposed probation by elevenmonths.

Otherwise the committee accepted OU's self-imposed sanctionsthat include reducing the number of scholarships, recruiting callsand trips and visits to the school by recruits.

The committee also accepted OU's sanctions regarding the men'sand women's gymnastics teams for failing to track the timestudent-athletes were allowed to practice. Those sanctions includereduced practice time for the teams and reducing the amount ofpractice time coaches can spend on individual instruction withathletes.

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